Show who if 1 11 fays ra a 8 V for or tn the 1 l e S schools ch V in carbon county comity by carbon county teachers association A survey has ha just been teen that point points out some inte interesting reding afloat tle be tax situation in carbon conaty the study wae was made on a basis of tax taxpayers payers in certain classes clai Se pirate tables wore were built up on individual taxpayers and corporations it was found that the total amount paid in 1931 was of this amount 39 or 74 2 per cent of 05 tb total tax wai was paid by corpora tilis or 25 8 per cent wats espail gaii by individuals abe average individual taxpayer tax payer 36 01 the average corporation corp corr rahon oration paid the 35 largest corporations in the country each paying a arz at of over sloko 1000 paid 00 or 69 9 per cent of the total colety co anty tax tills nils shows allows that tho the great bulk balk of the govon ment privileges caca we enjoy are paid for by corpor corporations atins in fact nearly y 70 per cent of the rold ro ld 1 school poor fund pension fund fair fund and county cot c pense is borne by only 35 corpora eions the people lio are clamoring i for tax tat reduction by decreasing school funds seem not to realize ahat hat a little difference to 0 o most individual tai payers a mill tax makes it be b impost impossible ible to reduce the tile school taxes tares bj b more than amill because of the bremen dous debt that saddles paddles the di debt adrice gen ice claims four mills of the chool school tax now last year car boa bon copaney paid app oil 16 percent of its expenditures for debt service how much difference dould it make to the individual tax taxpayer if hool taxes were ro re decea one mill the following fig uns aro are interesting in this connee tion assessed valuation one nil kiil eed red tio so 1000 1 00 2000 3 00 1000 4 00 and ct that one mill re reduction on school taxes would mean to car bon county school district distrct 71 can we afford to reduce the taxes for school purposes when hen the cost is 13 no small to the thi individual fix vix payer and the tax so important to the school much of the tax propaganda of the present is i directed at t the h school e eun n though tho the efficiency of f the schools has been drastically cut this year some forget that even though individual taxpayers tax pay but 23 25 8 percent of the tax that only a small sir ill part of the to tax the individual does pay goes to the school of the taxes paid pud last lat year on pr ce property only per cent was paid for school purposes or in other it if taxes were U 22 80 was paid for the support of the schools if a tax taxpayer raer paid 22 80 and had bad 3 children in school he would have paid raid 7 60 for ei echt lit mouths of schooling for cr each chill child less than per month how much Is a gears ears education for one of your chil children dreA worth I 1 |